Name: News Brief: The Harper's Letter and Our Extremely Narrow, Self-Serving Definition of Cancel Culture by Citations Needed Podcast
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Description: A bizarrely vague, cliquish letter demanding everyone be open-minded has no interest in explaining what, precisely, it wants.

naw, i'd say we live in a political moment where this machine won't be stopped and can't be fixed, so people are engaged in a fantasy.

If the endorsers truly desired "free speech" in absolute terms, then they would add their voices to cultivating a society in which that ambition wouldn't have such deleterious realities for the subjects of the said "free speech." Free speech is not dormant; any cogitation over speech requires a structural analysis, an appreciation for context. Most of the signatories don't show this diligence, and that beholds their vacuity, and duplicity. he sentiment of the Harper's decree, in and of itself, is noble and agreeable; but it is possible to concur with a message whilst questioning the validity of the messenger(s).

Honestly, I really love that passage."I hold all the power in this institution. The way to defeat ideas i hold, is to do it through the specific ways I tell you to do it, never mind the shifting goalposts or the doners that make up my mind for me. Also dont think about the fact that I'll find a way to fire you if you *do* somehow make it through the gauntlet.So just play fair and don't question the power dynamics at play. Oh but also its wrong to gather the people to say, en masse, that the things we're saying are bad. that doesn't count."

Noted "dingbat" (Mark Ames' term for her) Anne Applebaum was a signatory. The Letter has sunk out of sight since it was signed and printed.

Yascha Mounk and some of his contributors from "Persuasion" the maybe-magazine signed, so some of the signatories KNEW that their gang would be signing.

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News Brief: The Harper's Letter and Our Extremely Narrow, Self-Serving Definition of Cancel Culture

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